Ryota Kondo grew up on horror movies. For the Japanese director, that meant the “J-horror” of the ‘90s and ‘00s, a wave of films by filmmakers who specialized in creepy kids, damp atmosphere, techno-paranoia, and an oppressive sense of dread. For his feature debut “Missing Child Videotape” — an expansion of his prize-winning short film … Read more
For the past twenty-five years, Chaz Ebert and the College of Media at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have hosted the Ebertfest Film Festival at the Virginia Theatre in Champaign, Illinois. Roger Ebert was the first Film Critic to win a Pulitzer Prize for film criticism. He held his colleagues in esteem. Since his death, Chaz Ebert … Read more
The screening of “Derek DelGaudio’s In & Of Itself” at Ebertfest 2023 this past Friday evening was preceded by a special pre-tapped intro from Stephen Colbert, who executive produced the film with his wife, Evie. During their onstage Q&A with RogerEbert.com Literary Editor Matt Fagerholm, the film’s director Frank Oz and writer/star Derek DelGaudio affirmed … Read more